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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Future Scenarios for Arable Agriculture
Modelling pathways to sustainability, resilience and profitability in arable agriculture
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Guidance
Designing Effective Farm Environment Plans
We have prepared a guidance document for people who need to design effective FEPs, FEP templates and processes. It proses a four-step approach and makes…
Journal Article
Sediment phosphorus buffering in streams at baseflow: A meta-analysis
Phosphorus (P) pollution of surface waters remains a challenge for protecting and improving water quality. Central to the challenge is understanding what regulates P concentrations…
Journal Article
Anthropogenic increases of catchment nitrogen and phosphorus loads in New Zealand
Spatial regression models were used to predict yields of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) discharged from catchments throughout New Zealand. The models were derived using…
Summary
Cathy Taite-Jamieson and BioFarm: Dairy Farming with Nature in the Manawatū
Her organic BioFarm yoghurt is available in most supermarkets in Aotearoa but she only milks around 100 cows. Read more here about the Māori and…
Guidance
Land Use Options in Waimakariri
The Whitiwhiti Ora: Land Use Opportunities case study in Waimakariri brought farmers and researchers together to co-design an approach to assessing diverse opportunities when considering…
Technical Report
Faecal source tracking and the identification of naturalised Escherichia coli to assist with establishing water quality and faecal contamination levels
E. coli are routinely measured as faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) to provide indications of microbial water quality in parallel with other physico-chemical parameters. Recent evidence…
Technical Report
Spring milling wheat as a ‘nitrogen scavenger’ in the North Island
The use of wheat in the farm system should be considered as an effective nitrogen (N) mitigation technique. Wheat as an N scavenger crop does…
Journal Article
Do soil cadmium concentrations decline after phosphate fertilizer application is stopped: A comparison of long-term pasture trials in NZ
Stopping phosphorus (P) fertiliser can decrease topsoil cadmium (Cd) concentrations. Stopping P fertiliser applications reduced soil Cd concentrations after 21 and 26 years. Reductions only…
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